"That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story."

"Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised."

"It is a steadfast truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the greatest battles are fought within."

"If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job."

"I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office."

"I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it."

"Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work."